Doctors are set to take their first industrial action in four decades on Thursday 21 June to defend pensions. They will refuse all work apart from urgent and emergency procedures.
Lecturers in the UCU union voted overwhelmingly to continue the fight to defend their pensions at their annual conference in Manchester last weekend.
A conference in London next Saturday organised by Unite the Resistance aims to forge links between all those fighting back.
Cleaners in the RMT union at Tyne & Wear Metro struck solidly for 48 hours starting from last Sunday night. They are demanding an end to poverty pay and victimisation of union activists.
Men, women and children are being forcibly deported by the Tories. This is the reality of the government’s propaganda about immigrants and family life
The Tories pose as the party of the family. But they are choosy about which families they defend.
Activists and academics are preparing for an alternative summit this weekend in advance of the United Nations Rio+20 summit on climate change.
Harwich taxi control room staff in Essex are celebrating the reinstatement of their shop steward who was suspended for "insubordination".
The National Shop Stewards Network held its sixth annual conference last Saturday. Speakers included Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, and Kevin Courtney, NUT deputy general secretary. Both spoke about their members’ determination to build further coordinated strikes against the government’s attacks on pensions, and further cuts.
London bus workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike over Olympic pay—raising the prospect of a bus strike during the games themselves.
Delegates to the EIS teaching union’s annual general meeting in Dundee last weekend voted unanimously to continue the fight for pensions. The motion passed called for further joint action in the campaign.
Coastguard staff in the PCS union are holding lightning strikes throughout June.
